Kamla's Blog posts on ‘People’

By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, India, People, Podcast

Penguin India has finally launched its blog. Their second post in the blog is a very nice roundup of the launch of Manohar Shyam Joshi’s T’ta Professor in English where Ira Pande and her cousin Prof. Pushpesh Pant spoke about Mr. Joshi and the book.
Mr. Joshi was a prolific writer and an early pioneer of […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, People, Travel

This year’s Tiffin Cup award goes to Mint & Mustard headed by chef Anand Joseph George. This award is for the Best South Asian restaurant in UK. George won the award for his dish, which was a pan seared seabass fillets on a bed of potato and curry leaf mash, with a sauce of raw mangoes, ginger and coconut […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Food, India, Interviews, People, Travel

Mint & Mustard opened last year in Cardiff, Wales and is headed by Anand Joseph George, a truly gifted chef. The restaurant has got some great review and recently  won the annual South Asian Chef competition in Wales and will represent at the national level.
My husband and I first met George in Jamavar, the Indian […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, People, Technology

I just found that the Kamla Bhatt Show got the best design award for the online radio category in the PC World Web Award 2008. Here is a list of the jury members.
This comes as a pleasant surprise since I was not really aware of these awards and have no idea how I made it […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 14th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, People

Like many I was shocked to read the sudden passing of veteran journalist Tim Russert of NBC. The 58 year old TV reporter and NBC’s Chief of Washington Bureau died of a heart attack while at work. We will miss seeing his familiar face on the Sunday morning “Meet The Press,” show. Here is a […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Living In America, People

Like Bollywood films Sex and The City has an acronym: SATC. The movie raked in $55 million this past weekend, and some point out that makes SATC the first romantic comedy film to bring in that kind of big bucks.
The movie appears to be the the talk of almost every dinner conversation this past […]